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When trauma responses clash in community spaces

Our co-housing community does conflict resolution through dialogue but my neighbor's emotional outbursts trigger my PTSD and no one knows how to balance his right to express feelings with my right to feel safe.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between different nervous systems and healing needs reveals how individual trauma histories can make collective spaces unsafe in ways that defy simple solutions.

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